Steve Stark has the '08 campaign trail blogger gig at the Boston Phoenix?
This is to say the least something of a comedown for a paper that was once home to Dan Kennedy's political reportage.
Steve of course does have a nice looking resume, a stint as the Globe's official Clinton-hating liberal in the early nineties (he started predicting Bill's resignation seemingly a few weeks after the first inaugural)as well as a cultural commentator sinecure at WBUR...on paper it's all very impressive, in reality not so much.
None of this has ever changed my opinion of Stark as a hack scribbler who can pound out the blindingly obvious with a great deal of self satisfied relish. Banal...glib...surprising obtuse, Steve specializes in the sort of political coverage you can easily extract from junk like Time Magazine.
Why the Phoenix felt the need to resurrect Steve's career as a political pundit is a mystery? Can they really be all that impressed with his recent book on the Beatles, a tome that'll make no one forget Bob Spitz's biography or Goldman's trashy Life of John Lennon.
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